Unmarked Hammer 12 Ga. Shotgun

[B. Dudley]

It kind of has the look of an early J. Stevens Arms and Tool gun.

But those would usually be marked. Other than that, it looks like no other hammer gun that I have seen.

[Rocky Nivison]

Originally Posted by Brian Dudley

It kind of has the look of an early J. Stevens Arms and Tool gun.

But those would usually be marked. Other than that, it looks like no other hammer gun that I have seen.

Thanks, Brian
It’s the way the stock is connected to the breach that is so different from any other. My uncle told me it was an 1894 Remington made for sears or someone that never got stamped, when he gave it to me about 5 years ago. I disclaimed that in about 30 minutes on the internet 3 days ago when I started researching it. 1889 was the last year of the Remington hammer gun although the 1889 hammer on the Remington is identical in pattern but like the gun not as solid. The hammer on both guns must have been patterned after one another. Which one came first are another mystery and another reason to find out the date of manufacture on this one. Remington may have bought out this company and implemented some of its better features, but this hammer gun probably is post 1900 and improved Remington’s features.
I'll look at the J. Stevens Arms and tool gun.

[Rocky Nivison]

Well let’s see if I can get this right and you will have to excuse me if I get anything wrong while trying to pull a rabbit ear shotgun out of a hat. 2361 could be 2-3-61 since my great granddads brother in law, (Fern Smith), lived to be 106 years old and was the last solder left alive for the C.S.A. and the second civil war solder living before he died. I met him on several accessions walking a mile through the woods to fish in his son’s pond, his sword was on the mantel over the fireplace, and they even brought his uniform out on one occasion. He was a cornel for the C.S.A... He couldn’t have been more than 12 or so when he fought for the south. 2 -3-61 is only 12 years before the Remington M1873 or "hammer lifter model". I can remember Fern’s sister my great grandmother siting on the porch and smoking cotton bowl chewing tobacco in a corn cob pipe and my mom said she grew marijuana out by the barn until they outlawed it in the 20 or 30’s. She lived to be 92. This shotgun belonged to my great-great granddad. Maybe he made it.